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Kaichun Liu; Haoping Qu; Yawei Yang; Xiujie Yang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Recent studies have revealed the association between mapping and arithmetic (Ferres-Forga et al., "J. Numer. Cogn.", 8, 2022, 123; LeFevre et al., "J. Numer. Cogn.", 8, 2022, 1). Aim: The underlying mechanism remains unclear. Materials & Methods: The current study recruited 118 kindergarten children and followed…
Descriptors: Map Skills, Arithmetic, Numeracy, Inhibition
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Osman Birgin; Elif Seval Peker – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
The aim of this study was to develop an instrument for assessing sixth-grade students' number sense skills in fractions and decimals. This study was conducted on 452 sixth graders (10-11 years old) from the western region of Turkey. The construct validity of the number sense test (NST) was examined via exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Test Construction, Mathematics Education
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Kelsey J. MacKay; Filip Germeys; Wim Van Dooren; Lieven Verschaffel; Koen Luwel – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
Rational numbers, such as fractions and decimals, are harder to understand than natural numbers. Moreover, individuals struggle with fractions more than with decimals. The present study sought to disentangle the extent to which two potential sources of difficulty affect secondary-school students' numerical magnitude understanding: number type…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numeracy, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students
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Melody L. Bragas – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2025
Many recently added studies concerning reforms on teaching Early Mathematics were taken into consideration by different countries all over the world. The rhetoric that has accompanied such reforms has often justified them in terms of the need to produce citizens who are better able to cope with the demands of the twenty-first century. As an area…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Elementary School Students, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction
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Megan Rojo; Sarah G. King; Jenna Gersib; Christian T. Doabler – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2025
Competence with rational numbers is essential for mathematics proficiency in secondary mathematics. However, many students struggle with rational number concepts, and students with mathematics difficulties struggle even more. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an intervention that incorporated the use of explicit instruction…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Intervention, Direct Instruction, Models
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Hanna Lindström-Sandahl; Joakim Samuelsson; Henrik Danielsson; Stefan Samuelsson; Åsa Elwér – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Early numeracy interventions including basic arithmetic are crucial for young students at risk for early mathematics difficulties (MDs), yet few studies have evaluated numeracy interventions in second grade with a randomized controlled design. Aim: This pre- and post-test randomized controlled study evaluated the effects of an…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 2, Elementary School Mathematics
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Sara Gable; Afiah Mohd Fozi – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
State Early Learning Standards (ELS) are multi-function tools that inform early childhood instruction and practices. Using an established framework of early numerical development, this study assessed the prevalence of number, number relations, and number operations indicators in ELS, specifically indicators of counting, numeral knowledge,…
Descriptors: State Standards, Early Childhood Education, Arithmetic, Number Concepts
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Kejun Zheng; Baolige Chao; Xiaoran Xue; Li Zhang – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
To examine the relationship between early number sense and later symbolic arithmetic competence and how they are connected in young Chinese children. The present study utilized a longitudinal sample of 115 Chinese children aged 3 to 6. Young children completed measures to assess number sense, visual spatial skills (in the fall of their second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Numeracy, Arithmetic
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David Muñez; Josetxu Orrantia; Rosario Sanchez; Lieven Verschaffel; Laura Matilla – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
Previous research has demonstrated a link between children's ability to name canonical finger configurations and their mathematical abilities. This study aimed to investigate the nature of this association, specifically exploring whether the relationship is skill and handshape specific and identifying the underlying mechanisms involved.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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David Muñez; Josetxu Orrantia; Rosario Sanchez; Verónica Carreton; Laura Matilla – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
This study investigates how the approximate number system (ANS) and young children's symbolic skills jointly develop and interact. Specifically, the study aims at disentangling the directionality of the association between ANS acuity and a wide range of symbolic skills that reflect 4- to 5-year-olds' symbolic quantitative knowledge (enumeration…
Descriptors: Number Systems, Numeracy, Symbols (Mathematics), Young Children
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Marina Vasilyeva; Elida V. Laski; Beth Casey; Spyros Konstantopoulos; Linxi Lu; Jiwon Ban; Sophia Betar; Hyun Young Cho; Muanjing Wang – Grantee Submission, 2025
This study examined the effects of training involving spatial versus nonspatial representations of numerical magnitude for promoting arithmetic fluency. The key goal was to advance theoretical understanding of the relation between spatial and math learning, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the development of future educational…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1
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Yuting Liu; Peng Peng; Xueye Yan – Grantee Submission, 2025
In this meta-analysis of 54 longitudinal studies with over 58,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, we examined the predictive nature of early numeracy measured at or before the first year of formal schooling in relation to later mathematics. Results showed that early numeracy significantly predicted mathematics measured after 6 months…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Education, Predictor Variables
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Rafael Ramírez; Bárbara M. Brizuela; Maria Blanton – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2024
In this article, we present research on eight kindergarten and eight first-grade students' understandings of the arithmetic properties of commutativity, additive identity, and additive inverse during a classroom teaching experiment, selected from a larger study that included 88 students. In this study, we explore the students' types of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Mei Ma; Maxim Likhanov; Xinlin Zhou – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Recent research suggested fluent processing as an explanation on why number sense contributes to simple arithmetic tasks--'Fluency hypothesis'. Aims: The current study investigates whether number sense contributes to such arithmetic tasks when other cognitive factors are controlled for (including those that mediate the link); and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Numeracy, Arithmetic, Grade 1